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Conference Brings Experts Together to Shape the Future of Energy

This is the fourth year for this conference in Seattle. It’s presented by the Northwest Environmental Business Council as a forum for learning, networking, and business development.

With four concurrent tracks it’ll be hard to choose which sessions to attend. Don’t miss the one I’m leading – “Merging Technology and Occupant Behavior” – at 11:15 in the Energy Efficiency track. My panelists are experts from Opower, BPA and the Psychology Department at Washington State University. We’ll explore the relationship between hardware, software, and “wetware” — the puzzling stuff between people’s ears that makes their behavior so hard to manage. I’ll ask the panel what it takes to make change stick, and what roles technology and psychology play in achieving quantifiable, persistent energy savings at scale.

The full agenda is online atFutureEnergyConference.com, along with more information about the conference including the outstanding keynote speakers.

“We’re coordinating very closely with the Washington Department of Commerce,” says NEBC Executive Director Robert Grott, “and anyone who’s been tracking Governor Inslee’s energy agenda will see that our conference agenda is very much in line with that – we’re all trying to work together toward the same goals.”

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